I'm considering dropping cppunit and converting the unit tests to boost test. Nothing against cppunit, but since we depend on boost anyway it would be one less dependency. Boost has all the features, and slightly better test macros & templates.
The only thing boost lacks is a shared-library plugin framework. I used to think this was a great thing but I fear I was blinded by technology. On reflection a collection of separate executables that you can directly run individually is actually *better* that a collection of shared libs that you can run individually using the DllPluginTester tool! If anyone has experiences to the contrary give a shout. I'm not doing it right away, I'll try writing a couple of tests first to see how it goes in practice. Cheers, Alan.
